Lucky Old Rose

Here's a big Bakelite button that could be called the classic epitome of a big Bakelite button. With its perfectly sunny quality of creamed corn coloring and its artful carving of naively delineated petals, this comely keeper from the 1920's pretty much typifies the beloved hallmarks of a vintage Bakelite showpiece. There's an old-fashioned innocence to this graceful rose, not to mention an air of luck.

-Sherbert McGee